The Disappearance of The Cent Sign

Remember when you first learned about money? You learned about dollars and cents and that 100 cents equaled a dollar. You learned that you put $ in front of a number to mean dollars and ¢ after a number to indicate cents. After a while, everyone got the hang of not adding the cent sign at the end when you already had a dollar sign at the beginning.

My question for you is this: When was the last time you saw a cent sign (before this post, obviously)? I really can't remember. In fact, I had to go searching in Word for how to make one (it's Ctrl+/, c by the way).

If I haven't seen it then I need to figure out where it went and why?

My first theory had to do with the modern keyboard and that there is no easy way to type one, but that suggests it was already disappearing before that. I'm now working on a theory that it's all part of a vast conspiracy to make all prices in multiples of a dollar.

So, do you have any ideas?